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Lit Fest 2024
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Monday, June 10 • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
The Art of Description (Livestream)

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How is perception rendered into language? How do we go about the tricky business of representing the physical world on the page? Description isn’t there just to make a poem feel more vivid; it’s a way of revealing the self, characterizing the perceiver. In this seminar, we’ll look at a number of exemplary poems and practice with exercises designed to enrich sensory detail and get more of your individual way of knowing the world onto the page.

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Mark Doty

Visiting Author
Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane (April 2015), Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award, and My Alexandria, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the T.S. Eliot... Read More →


Monday June 10, 2024 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
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